ICal event invitation failures due to missing/malformed email addresses

These problems, although slightly different, appear in both 10.5.8 and 10.6.1. I don't see in the release notes that this was addressed in 10.6.2, but I have not installed it yet.
In 10.5.8, sometimes when a user is invited through the iCal invitation, an email is (attempted) to send with no email address in the to field; it's completely blank, and the mail server rejects it with a bounce message. Below is an example of the bounce message:
+This is an informative message sent by mail.xxx.com.+
+The server was not able to deliver your email message+
+Subject: xxx+
+Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:38:54 -0400+
+to the following addresses:+
+*<invalid:nomail> (mail.xxx.com: Mailbox does not exist)*+
10.6.1, instead of the full email address being included in the invitation, some additional information gets put in the email address section (see the bold section):
+From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[email protected]>+
+Date: November 11, 2009 3:35:51 PM EST+
+To: <[email protected]>+
+Subject: Returned email: tes+
+This is an informative message sent by mail.xxx.com.+
+The server was not able to deliver your email message+
+Subject: tes+
+Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:50 -0500+
+to the following addresses:+
+</caldav/users/[email protected]/> (xxx.com: 553 Invalid recipient (Cannot validate domain): /caldav/users/[email protected]/, )Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.xxx.com+
+Arrival-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:50 -0500+
+Original-Recipient: /caldav/users/[email protected]/+
+Final-Recipient: rfc822;/caldav/users/[email protected]/+
+Action: failed+
+Status: 5.1.1+
+Remote-MTA: xxx.com+
+Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 Invalid recipient (Cannot validate domain): /caldav/users/[email protected]/,+
+Received: from [x.x.x.x] ([x.x.x.x])+
+ by mail.xxx.com (Kerio MailServer 6.7.2)+
+ for /caldav/users/[email protected]/;+
+ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:50 -0500+
+Message-ID: <[email protected]>+
+From: [email protected]+
+To: /caldav/users/[email protected]/+
+Subject: tes+
+Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:50 -0500+
+MIME-Version: 1.0+
+Content-Type: multipart/alternative;+
+ boundary="MIME--453666918-1637820692-delim"+
Note how it's including /caldav/users/ in with the email address.
Message was edited by: Will O'Neal

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